Setup Virtualbox For Osx How To Make VirtualBox

As an alternative to the key combination, you can click View in the VM window and hit the Full-screen Mode option.

Moreover, the size of that window is usually not big, and if you maximize the windows size, the resolution of the guest OS user interface is left the same.

In the majority of cases, working in a guest OS with low resolution is not comfortable.

Setup Virtualbox For Osx How To Make VirtualBox

Read todays blog post to learn how to make VirtualBox full screen for Mac OS X and Windows guest OSs.

You can disable the internet connection or set up a virtual network adapter for a VM in the Host Only mode to allow network communication only between host and guest systems, and deny connecting the Windows 10 guest to external networks, including the internet.

As you recall, VirtualBox is installed on the host OS running on a host machine (a physical machine) and the guest OS is the operating system running on a VM.

It is recommended that you set 128 MB of video memory, as when a video mode with higher resolution is used, more video memory is needed.

For example, in our case the resolution of the monitor is 1920x1080 and the maximum resolution in the Windows 10 guest settings is 1600x1200 (available resolution settings of the guest OS are not for widescreen displays, as you can see).

If you try to enter the full screen mode by clicking View Full screen mode in the VM window or by pressing the combination of the VirtualBox host key and F ( Right Ctrl F in this case), the guest OS screen will not be stretched to the size of your display and resolution will not be increased.

In the VM Window menu, go to View and make sure that the Auto-resize Guest Display option is enabled.

Now you can maximize the VM window size of the Windows 10 guest.

After making the configuration explained above, you can enable the full screen mode for your Windows 10 VM by clicking View Full Screen mode in the VM window.

As an alternative, you can press the combination of the VirtualBox Host key and F.

Right Control is the default host key in VirtualBox, hence, you should press Right Ctrl F to enter full screen mode for a Windows 10 VM.

Display Settings of macOS can be found in System preferences Display.

You cannot increase the screen resolution in the display options.

Only the 1024x768 resolution is available in these settings.

In our example, Windows 10 is used as a host machine, hence, we have to run CMD as Administrator.

The defined resolution can be less than or equal to the resolution of your physical monitor connected to your physical (host) machine.

In our case, the monitor has the FullHD resolution (1920x1080).

Lets run the command in the host OS to set the necessary resolution.

When a VM boots, you will see your resolution in the display settings of the macOS guest.

There is still only one resolution parameter in the list, but it is 1920x1080 now instead of 1024x768 seen previously.

How To Setup Virtualbox For Osx